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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | polished, smooth |
| Synonyms: | burnished, clear, glazed, glazy, glossy, hyaline, hyaloid, icy, lustrous, shiny, sleek, slick, slippery, transparent, vitreous, vitric |
| Antonyms: | dull, rough, rugged, uneven |
| Main Entry: | clear |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | transparent |
| Synonyms: | apparent, cloudless, crystal, crystal clear, crystalline, glassy, limpid, pellucid, pure, see-through, thin, tralucent, translucent, translucid |
| Antonyms: | clouded, cloudy, foggy, obscured, smudged |
| Main Entry: | glossy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shiny |
| Synonyms: | bright, brilliant, burnished, chatoyant, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glistening, lustrous, polished, reflecting, silken, silky, sleek, slick, smooth |
| Antonyms: | drab, dull, mate, muted |
| Main Entry: | lucid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clear, transparent |
| Synonyms: | crystalline, diaphanous, gauzy, glassy, limpid, obvious, pellucid, pure, sheer, translucent, transpicuous, unblurred |
| Antonyms: | foggy, muddied, unclear |
| Main Entry: | sleek |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | smooth, glossy |
| Synonyms: | glassy, glistening, lustrous, polished, satin, shiny, silken, silky |
| Antonyms: | dull, raised, rough, ungroomed, unkempt |
| Main Entry: | slippery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | smooth, slick |
| Synonyms: | glacé, glassy, glazed, glistening, greasy, icy, like a skating rink, lubricious, lustrous, perilous, polished, satiny, silky, sleek, slimy, soapy, unctuous, unsafe, unstable, unsteady, waxy, wet |
| Antonyms: | dry, unslippery |
| Main Entry: | smooth |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | level, unwrinkled; flowing |
| Synonyms: | bland, continuous, creamy, easy, effortless, equable, even, flat, fluent, fluid, flush, frictionless, gentle, glassy, glossy, hairless, horizontal, invariable, lustrous, mild, mirrorlike, monotonous, peaceful, plain, planate, plane, polished, quiet, regular, rhythmic, rippleless, serene, shaven, shiny, silky, sleek, soft, soothing, stable, steady, still, tranquil, unbroken, undeviating, undisturbed, uneventful, uniform, uninterrupted, unruffled, untroubled, unvarying, velvety |
| Antonyms: | broken, coarse, intermittent, irregular, rough, uneven, wrinkled |
| Main Entry: | translucent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clear |
| Synonyms: | clear-cut, crystal, crystalline, diaphanous, glassy, limpid, lucent, lucid, luminous, pellucid, see-through, semiopaque, semitransparent, translucid, unblurred |
| Notes: | translucent means light passes through but without clarity; transparent means light passes through with clarity |
| Antonyms: | blocked, cloudy, opaque |
| Main Entry: | transparent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | see-through |
| Synonyms: | cellophane, clear, crystal-clear, crystalline, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, glassy, gossamer, hyaline, limpid, lucent, lucid, pellucid, permeable, plain, sheer, thin, tiffany, translucent, transpicuous, vitreous |
| Notes: | translucent means light passes through but without clarity; transparent means light passes through with clarity |
| Antonyms: | blocked, cloudy, dark, opaque |
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